Originally Posted by atpcliff

Your monetary calculations are off. You are only talking about the cost of a crashpad for a month. You are not including the costs of anything else, for example: The costs when you may have to buy a ticket, the costs when you may have to book a hotel somewhere you get stuck, the costs of waiting to see if you can get on a plane, or if you may miss making your trip, the costs of having to coordinate your own travel, the costs of having to figure out what to do when your travel falls through, etc., etc.

Also, it is one thing to be jumpseating from ORD to ATL. It is whole different animal when you live somewhere that doesn't have thousands of flights a day out of your home airport.